Êxodo 4:21-23 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 4:18-23

Here, I. Moses obtains leave of his father-in-law to return into Egypt, Exod. 4:18. His father-in-law had been kind to him when he was a stranger, and therefore he would not be so uncivil as to leave his family, nor so unjust as to leave his service, without giving him notice. Note, The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world. Moses said nothing to his father-in-law (for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:21

And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... At the same time he appeared to him in Midian, and ordered him to go into Egypt, even before his departure thither: when thou goest to return into Egypt ; and when got thither; for before the thing directed to in the next clause could not be done: see that thou do all these wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand ; not the three signs or wonders, related in the preceding part of the chapter, for they were to be done not before Pharaoh,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:22

And thou shall say unto Pharaoh ,.... When arrived in Egypt, and in his presence: thus saith the Lord ; he was to declare to him that he came in his name, and by his orders, and, as an ambassador of his, required the dismission of the children of Israel out of Egypt: Israel is my son, even my firstborn ; as dear to him as a man's firstborn is, or as his only son: adoption is one of the privileges peculiar to Israel after the flesh, even national adoption, with all the external... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:23

And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me ,.... Worship God according to his will in the place he had designed for him, and where he might be safe and free; and which service was due from him as a son, and to be performed not in a servile way, but in a filial manner, and therefore as a servant he could demand his dismission, and much more as his son; and this is required in an authoritative way, for saying is here commanding, insisting on it as a point of right to be done: ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:21

But I will harden his heart - The case of Pharaoh has given rise to many fierce controversies, and to several strange and conflicting opinions. Would men but look at the whole account without the medium of their respective creeds, they would find little difficulty to apprehend the truth. If we take up the subject in a theological point of view, all sober Christians will allow the truth of this proposition of St. Augustine, when the subject in question is a person who has hardened his own... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:22

Israel is my son, even my firstborn - That is, The Hebrew people are unutterably dear to me. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:23

Let my son go, that he may serve me - Which they could not do in Goshen, consistently with the policy and religious worship of the Egyptians; because the most essential part of an Israelite's worship consisted in sacrifice, and the animals which they offered to God were sacred among the Egyptians. Moses gives Pharaoh this reason Exodus 8:26 . I will slay thy son, even thy first-born - Which, on Pharaoh's utter refusal to let the people go, was accordingly done; see Exodus 12:29 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:21

Verse 21 21.When thou goest to return. Moses had not previously enumerated the wonders; but from this verse we gather, that whatever we shall presently read to be done, was already commanded by God. There is then, no doubt, but that God had already advised him of his whole course of proceeding, lest he might yield to the obstinacy of the proud tyrant, and when two or three miracles had been wrought in vain, might cast away his rod, together with the charge committed to him. Now, therefore, God... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:22

Verse 22 22.Israel is my son, even my first-born. God thus refutes, by anticipation, the only pretext by which Pharaoh could justify his refusal to let the people go. For Jacob had spontaneously submitted himself and all his family to his government; he had then free power to retain the people, which, by the common law of nations, was subject to the dominion of Egypt. But if it be an act of impiety to violate the ordinance instituted by God, the demand of Moses might appear improper, that the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:23

Verse 23 23.And I say unto thee, Let my son go. This was not the beginning of the legation, but its final clause; for Moses warned the desperate man of his son’s death, when everything else had been tried in vain. The meaning is, then, that the obstinacy of the tyrant must not prevent Moses from pressing him even to this final act. Therefore this injunction was an exhortation to perseverance; as appears from the context, when God declares that he will punish the obstinacy of the tyrant, because... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 4:18-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 4:23

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